{"id":314901,"date":"2025-10-16T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2162493"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:24:46","slug":"team-fortress-2-is-being-recreated-in-source-2-by-the-modding-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/team-fortress-2-is-being-recreated-in-source-2-by-the-modding-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Fortress 2 is being recreated in Source 2 by the modding community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/team-fortress-2-is-being-recreated-in-source-2-by-the-modding-community.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Team Fortress 2, it&#8217;s fair to say, is <em>getting on a bit<\/em>. The 14-year-old game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-06-26-valves-2007-shooter-team-fortress-2-just-broke-its-all-time-steam-concurrent-players-count\">remains incredibly popular on Steam<\/a>, but over the past year it&#8217;s hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, with bot problems that show no sign of disappearing. (Although we got to witness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-07-01-team-fortress-2-players-beat-team-of-bots-using-a-conga-line\">players conga-ing their way past the bots<\/a>, at least.) <\/p>\n<p>In any case, it seems the community has finally taken it upon themselves to give Team Fortress 2 a refresh, as a group of modders called Amper Software has started recreating the game in Garry&#8217;s Mod spiritual successor s&amp;box. The reason for this: they wondered what Team Fortress 2 would look like in Valve&#8217;s newest engine, Source 2. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since Source 2 was first mentioned publicly as an engine that Valve was working on, a lot of people in the Team Fortress 2 community have started asking the question: if Valve ever ports TF2 to Source 2, what would it look like? How different gameplay would be? And would TF2 even feel the same?,&#8221; the team explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/tfs2.madebyamper.com\/post\/aug2021?5\">blog post<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230;s&amp;box, the spiritual successor of Garry&#8217;s Mod made on the Source 2 engine, has been released as part of a dev preview to a group of community members, including ourselves. It, pretty much, like Garry&#8217;s Mod itself, allows you to build whatever you want using the toolset that it provides. So we&#8217;ve decided to not lose that chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-10-team-fortress-2-is-being-ported-to-source-2-by-the-modding-community\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-10-team-fortress-2-is-being-ported-to-source-2-by-the-modding-community\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Fortress 2, it&#8217;s fair to say, is getting on a bit. The 14-year-old game remains incredibly popular on Steam, but over the past year it&#8217;s hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, with bot problems that show no sign of disappearing. (Although we got to witness players conga-ing their way past the bots, at least.) In any case, it seems the community has finally taken it upon themselves to give Team Fortress 2 a refresh, as a group of modders called Amper Software has started recreating the game in Garry&#8217;s Mod spiritual successor s&amp;box. The reason for this: they wondered what Team Fortress 2 would look like in Valve&#8217;s newest engine, Source 2. &#8220;Ever since Source 2 was first mentioned publicly as an engine&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/team-fortress-2-is-being-recreated-in-source-2-by-the-modding-community\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team Fortress 2 is being recreated in Source 2 by the modding community | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Team Fortress 2, it&#039;s fair to say, is getting on a bit. 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